11 February, 2017

NSA contractor accused of stealing data far more sensitive than the Snowden docs

According
to an indictment released Wednesday, the information stolen by Harold
Martin, a former N.S.A. contractor who was arrested in August of last
year, may be far more damaging to the U.S. intelligence community
than anything taken by Edward Snowden.

On
October 5, the New York Times broke the story that the F.B.I. had
arrested an employee of the intelligence community over suspicions
the worker had stolen highly classified computer code.

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The
indictment gives the public a much clearer look at the type of data
Martin allegedly stole. And next to Edward Snowden, whose security
clearance limited the documents he took to mostly training materials,
it appears Harold Martin’s reach went far further into the national
intelligence community.